TY - BOOK AU - Hsieh,William Wei TI - Machine learning methods in the environmental sciences: neural networks and kernels SN - 9780511627217 (ebook) AV - GE45.D37 H75 2009 U1 - 006.31 22 PY - 2009/// CY - Cambridge PB - Cambridge University Press KW - Machine learning KW - Environmental sciences N1 - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015) N2 - Machine learning methods originated from artificial intelligence and are now used in various fields in environmental sciences today. This is the first single-authored textbook providing a unified treatment of machine learning methods and their applications in the environmental sciences. Due to their powerful nonlinear modelling capability, machine learning methods today are used in satellite data processing, general circulation models(GCM), weather and climate prediction, air quality forecasting, analysis and modelling of environmental data, oceanographic and hydrological forecasting, ecological modelling, and monitoring of snow, ice and forests. The book includes end-of-chapter review questions and an appendix listing web sites for downloading computer code and data sources. A resources website containing datasets for exercises, and password-protected solutions are available. The book is suitable for first-year graduate students and advanced undergraduates. It is also valuable for researchers and practitioners in environmental sciences interested in applying these new methods to their own work UR - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511627217 ER -